Meta: A Major Player in the Social Media Industry Meta, formerly Facebook Inc, is a huge company in the social media industry, owning popular social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The company has proved controversial several times, particularly within the area of data security. Within the last 24 hours it has been announced [...]

As Artificial Intelligence models become increasingly more intelligent, they are becoming more human like. Whilst current AI models lack human emotion, they can create text which sounds intelligent and human generated. Although these tools can be incredibly useful, the industry is largely unregulated. As a result, individuals with malicious intent can easily use them to [...]

Four weeks ago, there was an attack to the criminal records service which caused the site to be taken down by The Acro Criminal Records Office (the site owner). The scope of the attack is also largely still unknown. This means that despite the time that has passed it has still not been confirmed if [...]

With ransomware being such a large threat across the globe, it is important to understand where the areas at risk are and the best ways to minimise the risk. Within the last year the UK has been the second most attacked country in the world (with the US being the first) for ransomware attacks. Ransomware [...]

On Tuesday 11th April 2023, Microsoft released a security update for devices running its Windows 10 or Windows 11 operating system as well as the Microsoft 365 suite for Windows. A total of 97 vulnerabilities have been patched which cover a range of topics including elevation of privilege, remote code execution and security feature bypassing. [...]